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01 July 2010
Karen Woods is a busy mum of three. Having two children with severe nut allergies has inspired Karen and her husband Mike to establish Just Love Food Company, a company specialising in the production of delicious nut safe food. The company is launching this month with two children’s birthday cakes which are available in 200 [...]
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30 June 2010
Yesterday it was confirmed by Mark Prisk, the business and enterprise minister, that Business Link is to be shut down.
“The regional Business Links have spent too much time signposting and not enough time actually advising,” Mark Prisk told Real Business yesterday. “We’re going to wind down the Regional Development Agencies, and as part of those, we’ll be winding [...]
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28 June 2010
We all knew there would be some hard cuts ahead from the new coalition government as they seek to make good the country’s large deficit. Supposedly a fair budget, however, it appears to me that most of my Mumpreneur clients will be worse off.
Many of my Mumpreneur clients have one or two children and have [...]
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25 June 2010
For this weeks Freebie Friday we have teamed up with skincare company Simple to offer an amazing Complete Family Skincare Kit worth £45 RRP.
When your skin’s happy and fresh faced, you feel healthier and happier too! Simple has 50 years experience as the UK’s expert in caring for sensitive skin, and knows that using [...]
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24 June 2010
Online social network for homeworkers Enterprise Nation is giving £100 to 100 businesses and would-be businesses for their “good ideas”. The competition, in association with PayPal, is asking its members how they’d spend the money on their ventures, awarding £10,000 in all.
Ideas 101 in association with PayPal launches today and asks, “if we gave you [...]
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24 June 2010
Confused by the question? Think about it – are you ready to realise your true potential? Before you can do this perhaps you need to think about what is stopping you right now?
Do you consider yourself to be a successful business person? Someone who runs a small business well? Is your business success a result [...]
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23 June 2010
No, this is not, as you might think, a post moaning about the World Cup and all the football on TV at the moment. It’s about all the metaphorical ‘balls’ we try and keep in the air at any one time – kids, home, business, family, friends and ourselves.
Nor is this a post that [...]
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22 June 2010
Carly at Mummy’s Shoes has come up with a fab idea of everyone introducing themselves if they are going to CyberMummy in July. Now as some of you will know, Mum’s the Boss is a double-act, and whilst you will probably find us together, here are our individual details, just in case we get separated.
NB. [...]
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22 June 2010
Registering as a sole trader or partnership
You should contact HMRC as soon as you become self-employed on the newly self-employed helpline. They will ask for some personal details and description of your business. Following this call, they will issue you with a Unique Taxpayer Reference which can be used by you or your accountant to [...]
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21 June 2010
Make It Your Business - The Ultimate Business Start-Up Guide For Women covers all aspects of starting a business, from time management, branding and PR to management, leadership and developing your business. It also includes issues specific to women, such as finding the right childcare and why women and men often have different reasons for starting a [...]
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16 June 2010
Sally Hunter, author and illustrator of the popular Humphrey’s Corner books shares some insights into how the books started and her inspiration.
What was the biggest challenge in the beginning?
The early days were very difficult, I was a single parent, with two children and a new baby and struggling with a mountain of debt and very [...]
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15 June 2010
Here our resident Copywriting expert Sam Thewlis explains why your web copy should speak directly to your ideal customer.
Now before you start thinking I am touting for business, I am not talking about my own customers who come to me for (very good and exceedingly reasonably priced) copywriting, but your customers, and I want to [...]
14 June 2010
No – you haven’t misread the title – it really is Working 5 to 9 – How to Start a Business in your spare time by Emma Jones, founder of the home business website Enterprise Nation and author of the very successful book Spare Room Start-up.
From the Facts and Figures in Chapter 1 last year [...]
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11 June 2010
With the World Cup kicking off today, we have teamed up with BrightMinds, the UK’s award-winning online toy store, to offer a fabulous football prize from their extensive range of Football for Kids toys.
This year BrightMinds celebrate their 10th year in business with over 2000 educational toys and games for children of all ages and have just [...]
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10 June 2010
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne became an entrepreneur almost by accident when she discovered her children had food allergies. Her company Genius makes award winning gluten-free fresh bread. Launched less than a year ago, it has been stocked across the UK in various supermarkets and has recently hit the landmark of producing one million loaves.
What inspired you to start [...]
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10 June 2010
Life is not measured by
the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments
that take our breath away
Anon
Thought for Thursday #15
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Erica: Great plan, I need to do this too. It's my first ...
wylsie duggan: It's good to have a schedule or a plan especially ...
homemademummy: I really like these ideas - short and sweet and ma...
Lyn Blackledge: I have handed some pretty big lemons!!
I am not ...
Uta: What if we did't think of lemons as something nega...
